Lishkat gius , First time

Lishkat gius is the main recruitment center for all the people that want to join the army.
Yesterday evening I received a call from Yuval telling me I had to be there at 8 Am the next morning.
Obviously I was excited . I thought to myself i should leave early so that I wouldn't get stuck in morning traffic witch is terrible in Tel-aviv. So at 5:45 my alarm clock goes off, took a shower and had a quick breakfast leaving my apartment at around 6:30 . I had heard and looked up the bus i needed to take (64).
Once on the bus at quarter to 7 I thought to myself 'this is going to take a while ' . Lucky me , there was no morning traffic what so ever ... i arrive at 7 o'clock , an hour early and nothing has opened yet. This was my first wait of the many .

At around 8 everything started to open up. I was let in and went to my appointment . There the woman who was assisting me told me what was going to happen today .
1. Test your hebrew skills by writing a couple of sentences and speaking .
2. Pee in a cup ( For a urine test).
3. Personal interview about my childhood and current life.
4. Medical exam.
5. Eye test.
6. IQ test .




1. My hebrew speaking is ok , i can have full conversations without many problems. When it comes to writing on the other hand i'm a bit (very) rusty .

2. This probably was the easiest test for me since i skipped going to the toilet in the morning .
Test came back negative for drugs and normal for all the rest .

3. This test took about an hour. I had to speak in Hebrew as much as i could. We started off with my childhood and school situation , so that was a long story. Then i had to speak about my best friends and normal friends, why i was here , why i wanted to join the army, what i wanted to do ...

4.The Medical exam was easy for me. All I had to do was take me shoes off and lay down so the doctor could examine me . Done in  5 minutes and i was off to my eye test.

5. The eye test was funny because I'm colour blind, so they had me arrange a whole load of colours according to how bleu they were (not so easy!!!). It took me about half an hour to get out of there.

6. The IQ test wasn't as hard as everybody said it was going to be . It only took 45 minutes instead of two hours. I thought I had made a mistake by finishing so quickly , but the person in charge told me it was normal.

After the last test i was allowed to go home, this was at 2pm. Somehow I've got this weird feeling that I'm going to have to return because they forgot to ask me something...


That's all for today , now i just wait till they call me back in again .